We handed the mind a job it couldn’t do Protect the heart, predict the truth Carry the weight of every sound Every past, every what-if, every outcome Inherited alarms in borrowed skin Nervous systems humming before we begin Calling it danger, calling it me But it’s just weather moving through the body I don’t need to stop the noise I don’t need to make it quiet I just don’t give it the throne I am the space that holds the storm I am the stillness it moves upon Nothing outside, nothing to earn I am the capacity I’ve been looking from I don’t shrink when the world feels loud I don’t disappear when sensation comes around I stay I stay Thoughts arise like passing trains They speak in my voice, they say my name But I’m the one who hears them pass Not the story, not the task Feeling moves, heat, tight chest No command, no need to suppress Let it rise, let it fall Awareness is bigger than it all I don’t manage life with fear I don’t outsource truth to tension I rest where I already am I am the space that holds the storm I am the stillness it moves upon Nothing outside, nothing to earn I am the capacity I’ve been looking from I don’t leave when the body shakes I don’t flinch when the psyche speaks I stay I stay Not separate from the sound Not separate from the ache Not separate from the world That my senses translate The wave can move The signal can flare But I am not smaller Because I am aware No fixing No fight No climbing out of now Just depth remembering itself Right here Right now The mind was never meant to run the universe The body was never broken And awareness was never absent I am the space that holds the storm I am the stillness it moves upon Nothing outside, nothing to earn I am the capacity I’ve been looking from I don’t get lost in the psyche’s sound I don’t collapse when sensation’s loud I stay I stay Same world More room Same life Held whole
